[GuP] Oarai's famous gunner, Isuzuka Hana

Oarai Girls' Academy is the high school where the anime "Girls und Panzer" is set. Isuzuka Hana is Oarai's best gunner and a pilot of the Ankou Team, the captain's vehicle for the tank team. She has a lot of charm, not only in her skills as a gunner, but also in her appearance, personality, and even her own beliefs. This time, we will introduce this famous gunner, Isuzuka Hana.

Isuzu Hana's Profile

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She is a tall girl with long, lustrous black hair, and is the embodiment of a typical Japanese beauty. However, she has a stray hair standing up... She is gentle and polite to everyone. However, she has a strong core, and the dignified expression she sometimes shows shows a different beauty from her usual self. She is a girl who suits the expression "Yamato Nadeshiko". At first glance, she seems like a perfect girl, but contrary to appearances, she is a big eater who always eats a mountain of rice and eats twice as many side dishes as other people. No matter how much she eats, she never gains weight, so her best friend, Takebe Saori, is envious of her. However, although she is a big eater, she cannot cook at all. It's good that she is not perfect.

Give it your all in everything! Isuzuka Hana, a hard worker

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Hana's family is actually the head of a flower arrangement school, and Hana herself has been doing flower arrangement for a long time. Her skills are excellent and her mother has high expectations for her future, but Hana felt that the flower arrangements she arranged were not enough. Having fallen into a slump, she decided to do something different and more active, and to broaden her horizons, so she started tank driving. However, this was not an escape from the unsuccessful tank driving, but an expression of her ambition to arrange new flowers that she had never seen before. In fact, she started tank driving without her mother's permission, and when she found out, she was disowned. However, she always had "tan driving" in her heart, thinking, "If I can arrange flowers that will satisfy my mother someday, she will understand." Of course, what's amazing about Hana is that she doesn't give up on tank driving halfway. As the gunner of the Anglerfish Team, she stays late after school to practice desperately, improving quickly, and achieving results by destroying enemy vehicles at key moments in matches. Isuzuka Hana is the type to give her all in everything she does.

Isuzuka Hana's gunnery skills are top class!

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Hana had no experience in tank warfare, but she was fascinated by the power of the tank and the impact of the gunfire when she first rode in one, so she chose to be a gunner. After that, her skills improved rapidly thanks to her practice. His skill is now one of the top five gunners in the series. For example, in the first match against Sanders, the opposing flagship vehicle was moving at full speed, and even with the enemy's targeting his own vehicle, the Panzer IV, he was under pressure to land a miraculous turnaround shot and win a gold star. In the match against Anzio, he also scored a shot to destroy the flagship vehicle. In the final match against Kuromorimine, he shot the Maus' weak spot, which had only a small gap, with one shot and escaped the crisis. In the final one-on-one battle with the Tiger I, he landed a difficult shot as the Panzer IV drifted around the opponent's back, snatching victory. The secret to hitting the target is apparently to "concentrate as if you were arranging flowers," and it seems that he also makes use of his experience in flower arranging.

A little different from the others? Isuzuka Hana

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Hana is a modest yet strong-willed, hardworking, and beautiful woman, but she has a slightly different way of thinking than most people, which makes her playful. In addition to the aforementioned gluttony, when she found out that Miho had experience in tank warfare she asked "Is Miho a war expert?" which was fine, but her next words were "running wildly or extorting," which reminded her of a different kind of warfare, and when she was one-on-one with an enemy vehicle she asked "Shall we fight one more time?", and she naturally says things that a normal high school girl wouldn't say. There seems to be something off about her. She is also very brave and doesn't back down when questioned by the student council at the beginning of the story, and she has an imposing attitude that doesn't flinch even in the dark or when there are ghosts.

What Isuzuka and Miho have in common

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Hana is beautiful, graceful, earnest, hardworking, and the daughter of a family head, so she seems flawless, but she is surprisingly not perfect, being a big eater, playing the straight man role, and not good at cooking. Her friendliness is also one of Hana's charms. She is one of the key players who led Oarai to victory, with her unwavering concentration and shooting skills that never miss the target. In the final chapter, she became the new student council president due to her courage and her personality that firmly supports everyone. What kind of performance will she have as president and as Oarai's famous gunner?